Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Semiconductor wafer and method of ball drop on thin wafer with edge support ring
    Patent number: 11164835
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer has an edge support ring around a perimeter of the semiconductor wafer and conductive layer formed over a surface of the semiconductor wafer within the edge support ring. A first stencil is disposed over the edge support ring with first openings aligned with the conductive layer. The first stencil includes a horizontal portion over the edge support ring, and a step-down portion extending the first openings to the conductive layer formed over the surface of the semiconductor wafer. The horizontal portion may have a notch with the edge support ring disposed within the notch. A plurality of bumps is dispersed over the first stencil to occupy the first openings over the conductive layer. A second stencil is disposed over the edge support ring with second openings aligned with the conductive layer to deposit a flux material in the second openings over the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Seddon, Takashi Noma, Kazuhiro Saito
  • Systems and methods to mimic target food items using artificial intelligence
    Patent number: 11164478
    Abstract: Systems and methods to mimic a target food item using artificial intelligence are disclosed. The system can learn from open source and proprietary databases. A prediction model can be trained using features of the source ingredients to match those of the given target food item. A formula comprising a combination of most relevant source ingredients and their proportions can be determined using the trained prediction model. A set of existing recipes can be used as a dataset to train a recurrent neural network (RNN) and/or other suitable models. The RNN can be used to determine a recipe to mimic the target food item. The recipe may comprise a cooking process for the set of ingredients in the formula and can be cooked by a chef. The recipe may be further modified as necessary based on human feedback on sensorial descriptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: NotCo Delaware, LLC
    Inventors: Karim Pichara, Pablo Zamora, Matías Muchnick, Orlando Vásquez
  • Interaction between power saving adaptation and bandwidth part adaptation
    Patent number: 11166269
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more first radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters indicate a minimum scheduling offset value of a bandwidth part (BWP) of the cell. The wireless device receives a first downlink control information (DCI) comprising a BWP index indicating the BWP and a field indicating whether to apply the minimum scheduling offset value. The wireless device receives a second DCI indicating a scheduling offset value between the second DCI and a downlink data channel scheduled by the second DCI. The scheduling offset value is greater than or equal to the minimum scheduling offset value based on the field indicating to apply the minimum scheduling offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Kyungmin Park, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kai Xu
  • Semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) device with reduced parasitic capacitance
    Patent number: 11164892
    Abstract: A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) device including a handle wafer, a buried oxide (BOX), and a top device layer is provided. A plurality of elongated trenches are formed in the handle wafer. Air gaps are formed in the elongated trenches by pinching off each of the elongated trenches. In one approach, prior to the pinching off, a plurality of lateral openings are formed contiguous with the elongated trenches and adjacent to the BOX. The elongated trenches and/or the lateral openings reduce parasitic capacitance between the handle wafer and the top device layer. In another approach, sidewalls of the elongated trenches are implant-damaged so as to further reduce the parasitic capacitance between the handle wafer and the top device layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Newport Fab, LLC
    Inventor: Paul D. Hurwitz
  • Construction of ultra high capacity performance battery cells
    Patent number: 11165090
    Abstract: A method of forming a battery electrode includes spraying a suspension of nanoparticle sized metal oxide to create an active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HHeLi, LLC
    Inventors: Paige L. Johnson, James Dean Fleetwood, II
  • Top-down wear-leveling storage system and method
    Patent number: 11163465
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for compartmentalizing a plurality of RAID extents, within a RAID system, into a plurality of rotation subgroups. A write load imbalance condition is sensed in a first rotation subgroup, chosen from the plurality of rotation subgroups, that is associated with a plurality of logical data portions. At least one of the plurality of logical data portions is moved from the first rotation subgroup to a second rotation subgroup, chosen from the plurality of rotation subgroups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Nickolay Dalmatov, Michael P. Wahl, Jian Gao
  • Method to process coextruded meat products using high velocity air in combination with handling method and liquid application
    Patent number: 11160297
    Abstract: A system and method for processing a coextruded meat product including a casing enclosing a meat batter after brining in which a heated, high velocity air stream is applied to the coextruded meat product thereby mechanically removing moisture from a surface of the casing and cooking the coextruded meat product. This system and method can further improve the ability for a liquid coating to be added to the coextruded meat product in a non-drenching manner because of the superior surface preparation of the casing by the jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CoextrusionSolutions, LLC
    Inventors: Jozinus Johannus Jacobus Petrus Kobussen, Tony J. Haun
  • Feed-fortify enteral feeding and related methods therefor
    Patent number: 11160731
    Abstract: A pump set for use with a pumping apparatus to deliver nutrition to an infant includes a first container to receive breast milk; a second container to receive fortifier; tubing extending from the first container and from the second container; and a valve mechanism connected to the first and second containers by the tubing and configured to selectively pass liquid from the first container and the second container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: KPR U.S., LLC
    Inventor: Joel David Wiesner
  • Systems and methods for cyber security alert triage
    Patent number: 11165815
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems, apparatuses and methods for mitigating cyber-attacks. For example, the method includes receiving, from one or more network devices tracking activity on a network, one or more data streams associated with a respective one of the one or more network devices, identifying a security alert from the one or more data streams, the security alert including metadata context describing the network device from the one or more network devices that originated the security alert, analyzing the metadata context to generate a metadata context score. When the security alert is determined to be a security threat event, classifying a type of the security threat event based on the related activity score and the metadata context, and outputting a recommended mitigation course of action based on the classified type of the security threat event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Trost, Brandon Stoy
  • Highly efficient medical headlamp
    Patent number: 11160632
    Abstract: A high-efficiency medical headlamp, emitting light from a front surface, and having a high-efficiency light source, producing a first light beam. An iris assembly has an annular body that defines a first annulus and has iris blades which can be extended into the annulus to form a second, smaller, annulus. This iris assembly is positioned relative to the light source so that the iris blades are in front of the high-efficiency light source. The annular body and therefore the first annulus have finite depth from back to front. A light guide is placed immediately behind the iris blades and defines a channel that is open at its back and its front and has a reflective interior surface, with the open back being transversely coincident to the light source so that light from the light source can travel through the channel to and out from the open front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventors: John Thomas Ferguson, Ned Nestorovic, Jack Schmidt
  • Magnetic window attachments
    Patent number: 11162299
    Abstract: A retrofit window kit includes a plurality of magnetic sash elements configured to be positioned at one or more locations on an interior perimeter of the sash and a corresponding plurality of magnetic window grid elements each configured to magnetically couple to one of the magnetic sash elements and constructed as a clip or a cap that fits over and frictionally attaches to an exterior end of a window grid muntin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Cortex, LLC
    Inventors: Rodney Napier, Zachary P. Beard
  • Combustible log torch
    Patent number: 11162043
    Abstract: A combustible log torch which can be ignited to provide heat for warmth or cooking, and light for illumination can be made by compacting a mixture of wood sawdust and a food grade binder. Such combustible log torches are convenient and safe to use and provide optimal characteristics of quickly providing a bonfire without the need for a fireplace or a fire pit. The fire produced by such combustible logs is also optimal for safely and conveniently cooking food items. Such a combustible log torch can be manufactured by a method which comprises compacting a composition which is comprised of a mixture of wood particles and a food grade binder under a pressure of at least about 5 psi (0.034 megapascals) in a mold to produce the combustible log torch having at least one vertical cavity (hole) which extend vertically through the entire length of the combustible log torch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Campfire Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: David W. Hodsdon, Michael L. Wahl, Phillip P. McDonald
  • Microemulsion flowback recovery compositions and methods for making and using same
    Patent number: 11162018
    Abstract: A microemulsion well stimulation compositions for flowback water recovery includes an aqueous system, a surfactant system, a solvent system, and optionally a winterizing system, where the solvent system includes a dibasic ester or a plurality of dibasic esters and the composition is non-flammable, non-combustible, non-hazardous, and/or environmentally friendly, while demonstrating comparable or superior flowback recovery performance compared to known water recovery formulations that utilize more flammable components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: PfP Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Aziz Hikem, Derek Vaughn
  • Method and apparatus for managing digital files
    Patent number: 11163823
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Memoryweb, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. Desmond, Nancy L. Desmond, L. Michael Taylor
  • Reductant dosing unit with flow variability reduction and purge improvement device
    Patent number: 11162403
    Abstract: A dosing unit having a fluid path defined therethrough and including a fluid injector having an inlet tube; an inlet cup sized and shaped for receiving therein at least part of the inlet tube of the fluid injector, the inlet cup including a fluid inlet; an input tube in fluid communication with the inlet cup via the fluid inlet thereof, the input tube configured to receive fluid from a fluid source; and an insert partly disposed in the inlet tube of the fluid injector, the insert at least partly defining a fluid passage. The fluid passage is in fluid communication with the input tube and the inlet tube of the fluid injector and forms part of the fluid path of the dosing unit. The fluid passage includes a portion extending in a direction that is orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the fluid injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Vitesco Techologies USA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Wayne McFarland, Keith Aaron Shaw, Christopher Michael Caulkins
  • Grinders, analyzers, and related technologies
    Patent number: 11160419
    Abstract: Grinders, analyzers, and related technologies are described herein. The grinders can hold foodstuff that is periodically ground. The analyzers can analyze the foodstuff to determine information about the state of the foodstuff. Algorithms can be used to determine how to process the foodstuff, how to use the foodstuff, and/or when to discard the foodstuff. The grinder can be a portable, rechargeable electric coffee grinder configured to monitor the freshness of the coffee beans. When coffee beans become stale, they can be discarded and the coffee grinder can be refilled with fresh coffee beans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sorry Robots LLC
    Inventors: Samantha Rose, Scott Heimendinger, Tasche Streib, John Laz, Michael Egan, Christian Lester, Brian Rose
  • Removable cushion for a chair, mold for making a cushion and a chair having a removable cushion
    Patent number: 11160381
    Abstract: A removable cushion for a chair having an outer surface and an inner foam, as well as at least one magnetic member. The inner foam and the outer surface are formed from the same polymer, with the outer surface forming an integral skin over the inner foam. The outer surface defines an upper surface and a lower surface. The lower surface is structurally configured to be positioned in an abutting relationship with a seating surface of a chair. The at least one magnetic member is embedded within one of the outer surface and the inner foam, the at least one magnetic member positioned closer to the lower surface than the upper surface of the outer surface. A chair having the cushion, and a mold is likewise disclosed, as is a method of manufacturing the cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Vanco Products LLC
    Inventors: John VandenBos, Richard Claypool
  • Production of malonyl-CoA derived products via anaerobic pathways
    Patent number: 11162125
    Abstract: The present invention provides for novel metabolic pathways to convert biomass and other carbohydrate sources to malonyl-CoA derived products, such as hydrocarbons and other bioproducts, under anaerobic conditions and with the net production of ATP. More specifically, the invention provides for a recombinant microorganism comprising one or more native and/or heterologous enzymes that function in one or more engineered metabolic pathways to achieve conversion of a carbohydrate source to, e.g., long-chain hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon derivatives, wherein the one or more native and/or heterologous enzymes is activated, upregulated, downregulated, or deleted. The invention also provides for processes to convert biomass to malonyl-CoA derived products which comprise contacting a carbohydrate source with a recombinant microorganism of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management LLC
    Inventors: William Ryan Sillers, Shital A. Tripathi, Arthur J. Shaw, IV, Aaron Argyros, David A. Hogsett
  • Soybean variety 01073183
    Patent number: 11160237
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073183. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073183. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073183 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073183 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Hall, Craig K. Moots, David L. Price
  • Razor handle
    Patent number: D935097
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Jonathon Albert Riehle, Regan Marie Fiascone